That sounds nice in theory, but if your public transportation sucks you’re still going to have a car.
Where I live, most places around me that are too far to walk (over 30 mins) but that take 5 minutes by car have terrible public transport. For example, the mall closest to where I live is 45 minutes by foot, 5 minutes by car, and around 30 to 40 minutes on bus (assuming no wait time at all). The reason is that it doesn’t go straight to the mall, it goes into many streets on its route and the mall is its last stop.
Similarly, it takes 10 minutes by car to get to the closest train station but about an hour to do it by bus.
That’s why I don’t think you can simply use a “no kids? no car” logic as a universal one. Rather, the logic would be “use your car as an alternative to public transport”. Which means, try to use public transport as primary means, but use the car instead if it’s not viable or the difference would be big.
That sounds nice in theory, but if your public transportation sucks you’re still going to have a car.
Where I live, most places around me that are too far to walk (over 30 mins) but that take 5 minutes by car have terrible public transport. For example, the mall closest to where I live is 45 minutes by foot, 5 minutes by car, and around 30 to 40 minutes on bus (assuming no wait time at all). The reason is that it doesn’t go straight to the mall, it goes into many streets on its route and the mall is its last stop.
Similarly, it takes 10 minutes by car to get to the closest train station but about an hour to do it by bus.
That’s why I don’t think you can simply use a “no kids? no car” logic as a universal one. Rather, the logic would be “use your car as an alternative to public transport”. Which means, try to use public transport as primary means, but use the car instead if it’s not viable or the difference would be big.